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Asheville N. Ca.
Dec 24th 1859
D'r Zeb
I have waited thus long in expectation of hearing from you but as I receive no letters or anything from you I am constrained to write. Mrs. Vance I suppose keeps you advised of everything concerning the family so I will not say a word on that subject.
Some of our very wise friends are acting very strangly [sic], to say the least of it, they are perfectly indignant and [illegible] on the subject of the speaker ship. They appear to think that you should go or have gone over to the Democracy and elected [?Bocock] not only to have spited the Republicans but to have shown an unbroken front to them and a determination of supporting the South and in the very next breath admit that the South Americans are true to the South, a few of them excepting Gilener & Etheridge

Asheville N. Ca.
Dec 24th 1859
D'r Zeb
I have waited thus long in expectation of hearing from you but as I receive no letters or anything from you I am constrained to write. Mrs. Vance I suppose keeps you advised of everything concerning the family so I will not say a word on that subject.
Some of our very wise friends are acting very strangly [sic], to say the least of it, they are perfectly indignant and [illegible] on the subject of the speaker ship. They appear to think that you should go or have gone over to the Democracy and elected [?Bocock] not only to have spited the Republicans but to have shown an unbroken front to them and a determination of supporting the South and in the very next breath admit that the South Americans are true to the South, a few of them excepting Gilener & Etheridge